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Status: Beta Release
Purpose: New features, fixes
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer
Mac App Store: Not Submitted
Download: 1.5 Beta 12 Here
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PLEASE BE AWARE - If you have not already run Beta 9, 10 or 11, this version will reset all your settings. If you have already run Beta 9, 10 or 11 then it will not. Please make sure that if you have created any palettes, styles, assets, brushes, etc in the current beta that you export them in the current version first BEFORE installing this beta otherwise you will lose them. This was unfortunately necessary for the Beta 9 build and should hopefully not be required again.
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This is a beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, it should be considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.5 cannot be opened in 1.4 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.5 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.4 version.
To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it.
Fixes/Improvements:
Added preferences item for whether the use prefers 'Scrubby zoom' or 'Marquee zoom'
Added snapping for text height when creating Artistic Text objects
Image exports that exceed the maximum dimensions of that file format are now scaled to fit, rather than cropped to the maximum dimensions
Colour panel now has a special mode available only in 32bit documents (not finished at present)
Ungroup All should not be ungrouping Symbols that were contained in the structure
Initialise the first artboard with any guides currently applied to the document
Added check for small mouse movement prior to showing measuring tools - this avoids the overly-intrusive Cmd behaviour at present
Fixed PSD export of vector texture-stroked lines
Fixed PSD import of 16bit documents
Fixed TIFF import of 16bit images
Fix for editing curves inside a compound object that is part of a symbol
Advanced Navigator mode now correctly disables/enables the rename/remove options as appropriate
Fix for creating symbols from within existing symbols
Editing guides with the Guides Manager should now work correctly with many artboards
Fix for colour picker showing incorrectly if the user holds Alt during a spacebar-pan
Improved snapping performance with heavily nested document structures
Fixed being unable to add text over pixel layers
Miscellaneous other small fixes